Those Who Do Podcast

Those Who Do: The Producers w/ David Feld & Shawn O’Brien

David Feld and Shawn Obrien are Hollywood producers.  The good kind.  Not the greedy, preventing actors from making a living wage and stealing their likeness to be later used by AI to lower their bottom line kind.  Their work includes doing things like making sure money is accounted for, marketing is handled, crew are secured and productions have what they need to move forward, and purchasing birthday cakes, among many other things.  David and Shawn join us to talk about their early lives in Arizona and Connecticut respectively and how they ended up in the industry.  They also clear up a lot of technical and industry terms…on their own…without being asked…like teachers.  Except Best Boy and Key Grip.  They wouldn’t tell us what those were.  Listen to find out why!

This is Those Who Do:  The Producers w/ David Feld and Shawn O’Brien!

Those Who Do: Writing - Kids Books to Hot Dogs w/ Suzanne Francis

Suzanne Francis is originally from Long Island.  She’s a writer of books (Disney Princess Beginnings, Onward:  The Junior Novelization, Moana’s Big Leap, Frozen II:  Family Game Night) television (Unhappily Ever After) and film (Wieners). 

She joins us to talk about her life before Los Angeles and how she ended up across the country working toward her goals, her influences, parenting teens, and the different creative processes involved in   writing for different mediums.  Her roots are in comedy and it shines through in this conversation full of chuckles, insight into the creative process, and the reality of trying to make it in the entertainment business.

This is Those Who Do: Writing - Kids Books to Hot Dogs w/ Suzanne Francis

Those Who Do: Law Enforcement Culture Change w/ Jesse Trevino & Joe Smarro

Jesse Trevino and Joe Smarro are decorated Marine Corps combat veterans and former San Antonio Police Officers.  While they were cops, Joe and Jesse worked on a groundbreaking special unit tasked with responding to mental health calls in their community.  Joe was the subject of the Emmy winning HBO Documentary Ernie and Joe:  Crisis Cops and a Ted Talk presenter.  In addition to the Mental Health Unit, Jesse also worked special drunk driving enforcement, was involved with a federal task force performing threat assessments and preventing potential active shooters, and Cadet Training Coordinator for  the San Antonio Law Enforcement Academy.

Through their work with the San Antonio Police Department, Jesse and Joe were able to interact with all aspects of law enforcement exposing both the successes of the profession as well as the opportunities for improvement.   Most importantly their work on the Mental Health Unit stoked their passion to change mental health culture in the community as well as within law enforcement.

Joe and Jesse used their life experiences and sense of humor to create a successful consulting company – SolutionPoint+.  SolutionPoint+ has the goal of directly reaching first responders to encourage and foster positive culture change in Law Enforcement.

This is...Those Who Do:  Law Enforcement Culture Change w/ Jesse Trevino & Joe Smarro!!

Those Who Do: Collaboration & Creativity w/Tony Saltzman

Tony Saltzman is a television writer and producer known for Dexter:  New Blood, Goliath, Feed the Beast, and Nurse Jackie.  Most importantly, Tony champions the idea of collaboration in the creative process and thrives in a writer’s room and team environment.  He takes true joy in the success of others and was immediately open to sharing his successes and struggles in the entertainment industry. 

Tonys Forsmark and Saltzman take some time to give a run down on the reasons for the Writer and Actor guild strikes and what their respective groups hope to secure in aims of creating a working environment for writers and actors to own their intellectual property and likenesses as well as maintain job security and living wages for both camps. 

Lots of laughs, a good deal of information, and some insights into the creative process that may run against what most people think of the entertainment industry.

This is Those Who Do:  Collaboration & Creativity w/Tony Saltzman!

Those Who Do: Yoga w/DawnMarie Ferrara

DawnMarie Ferrara is an actress known for Smothered, 9-1-1:  Lonestar, NCIS, and A Life, Taken.  She is also a dancer (both a classically trained dancer and a busting out a move in a restaurant for fun kind of dancer dancer).  Not only can she emote like crazy and get her boogie on, DawnMarie is also a certified yoga instructor.  She joins us today for a conversation full of laughs and insight spanning from her early life, to moving to Los Angeles from New York, to educating us about yoga’s styles and benefits revealing that all may not be as it seems.  This one is a fun one folks.

This is:  Those Who Do:  Yoga w/DawnMarie Ferrara!

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Those Who Do: Fatherhood w/Jorge Garcia & David Greenspan

Jorge Garcia is known as an actor (LOST, Alcatraz, Hawaii 5-0, the Munsters, and the Ridiculous 6), but most importantly, Jorge is a husband and a father to a 22 month old little girl.

David Greenspan is known as an editor and director (Grey’s Anatomy, Station 19, How to Get Away with Murder, Bean Cake), but most importantly, David is a husband and the father of a 13 year old son who has starred for 6 years on a network sitcom as well as 10 year old and 7 year old boys not involved in the entertainment business at all.

Jorge and David join us for a very frank and vulnerable conversation about our hopes, fears, successes and failures as fathers.  We share, compare, and contrast our parenting styles, where we all are in our parenting journeys, and make fun of David for not being able to effectively tell a story.  Also, you can't get much more adorable than Jorge's impression of his daughter!   

 

This is Those Who Do: Fatherhood w/ Jorge Garcia & David Greenspan!

Those Who Do: Writing & Creativity w/Joe Stillman

Joe Stillman is an Academy Award and Emmy nominated, BAFTA winning writer known for Dreamworks's Shrek 1 and 2, MTV's Beavis and Butthead, and Nickelodean's The Adventures of Pete and Pete.  In this episode, Joe invites us into his home on a rainy Los Angeles day for an incredibly insightful conversation about writing, the creative process and life.  Joe explains how serendipity can be an extremely important part of success.  Joe also takes some time to discuss his novel, The Man Who Came and Went (available at www.joestillman.com or wherever fine books are sold).  Joe Stillman is an incredibly beautiful soul with a ton of insight applicable to all walks of life.  It was truly an honor to be welcomed into his home for this conversation. 

This is Those Who Do: Writing & Creativity w/ Joe Stillman!